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Perry --
Was this deal worked out before or after OCLC's recent announcement?
A more direct question, I suppose, is to ask whether OCLC's recent
announcement impacts your ability to deliver more complete MARC
records through the OAI-PMH end point.
Peter
On May 23, 2008, at 8:09 AM, Willett, Perry wrote:
> Part of the deal we worked out with OCLC involved releasing truncated
> records. Some fields and delimiters are not included in the set of
> MARC
> records for MBooks available through our OAI data provider.
>
> Perry Willett
> University of Michigan
>
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>> Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 18:02:29 -0400
>> From: fdmcnama_at_UCHICAGO.EDU
>> Subject: Re: OCLC to share bib records with Google
>>
>> This is very nice and we used these. However, they are dumbed down
>> MARC records. Author names lack dates, for instance. Corporate
>> names may be cut down so you only "United States" Same for subject
>> headings. Makes for some interesting issues. It is my understanding
>> that these are dumbed down in order not to violate OCLC restrictions
>> about passing on OCLC records. Perhaps I'm wrong about that?
>>
>> Frances McNamara
>> University of Chicago
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